Our Team
Bill Keravuori
Founding Partner / Bill@ablecompany.us
Bill Keravuori founded Able Company in 2018 with a values-based business model designed to meet the unique challenges of each project. Able has acquired and commenced redevelopment of commercial properties in South Boston, Nubian Square, and Medford, MA. He has spent nearly 30 years of experience in commercial real estate, first in New York and then Boston.
Prior to founding Able, Bill was a Senior Vice President and Managing Partner at Abbey Group, where he developed and permitted more than 3 million square feet of large-scale Boston real estate – including Landmark Center, the Veridian, Exchange South End (Flower Exchange), 45 Province and the Lafayette Corporate Center.
Bill has degrees in engineering and architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. After college he served in the U.S. Army as a Ranger Combat Engineer.
He lives in the South End neighborhood of Boston.
“I fundamentally believe that real estate done well has a chance to transform neighborhoods for the better. I love the city of Boston. I consider it my city even though I wasn’t born and raised here. I care about the neighborhoods and believe in building consensus to ensure that everything I do is a win-win for the neighborhoods, the city, the development team, and our investors.”
John Everly
Managing Partner / john@ablecompany.us
John Everly brings 25 years of commercial real estate finance experience to Able Company, most recently as Group Manager of Commercial Real Estate for the New England Region of M&T Bank. In that role, he built a team from the ground up that grew the bank’s regional CRE business by expanding its client base to many of the top real estate companies in the region
Prior to M&T, John worked in commercial real estate finance for Santander Bank and the Bank of Scotland.
John has a BA in Environmental Studies and Land Use Planning from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master’s in History from University College of London. John is a 20-year resident of the South End where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
Cate Lynch
Director of Development / catel@ablecompany.us
Cate Lynch worked for the first 13 years of her commercial real estate career for Urban Retail Properties, starting in Accounting and had done everything from leasing, property and asset management and development project management by the time she moved over to the multifamily sector. While at Urban Retail she managed a number of transactions, oversaw 3 ground up developments and a large number of tenant fit-ups on behalf of the owner. Cate then worked for a number of national multi-family developers on the front end of acquisitions, handling due diligence, entitlements and initial program design. From 2019 through 2022, Cate worked on The Raffles Boston Hotel & Condominium project in the Back Bay section of Boston as the Senior Project Manager on the Development side, handling legal and entitlement, leasing, financial and construction items. In 2023, Cate joined Able Company to lead the Nubian Square Ascends project, consisting of a medical office building, garage, Performing Arts Center, affordable housing and a boutique hotel.
Ms. Lynch is an alumna of Connecticut College and received her Commercial Real Estate Investment Certificate from MIT. Cate spends her time working with a number of community organizations and can be found outdoors cycling the roads, woods and beaches near her home or hiking and skiing in the mountains.
John Martino
Senior Project Manager / johnm@ablecompany.us
John Martino plays a key role in Able Company, bringing a decade of experience in project management in international markets, strategic thinking, and operations to everything he does.
In overseeing myriad aspects of commercial development projects for the Able company team, John draws on his prior experience in recruiting, developing and managing large-scale operational teams to bring value to the firm’s projects.
Prior to joining Able Company, he served as an executive director at a multi-national travel company with offices in 36 countries around the globe. Over the previous 10 years, he was responsible for all strategic operations and project management across Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East.
John earned a Commercial Real Estate certification from Cornell University. He lives in Roslindale Village.